Architecture
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Release : 1977
Category : Architecture
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Release : 1977
Category : Architecture
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Page : 48 pages
File Size : 39,96 MB
Release : 1977
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Author : B. Weinreb Architectural Books Ltd
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File Size : 29,72 MB
Release : 1977
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Page : 56 pages
File Size : 46,72 MB
Release : 1977
Category : Architecture
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Page : 586 pages
File Size : 19,54 MB
Release : 1986
Category : Bibliography
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Author : Nicholas Boyarsky
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Page : 96 pages
File Size : 39,19 MB
Release : 1982
Category : City planning
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Author : Christopher Alexander
Publisher : Center for Environmental Struc
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 16,85 MB
Release : 1987
Category : City planning
ISBN : 0195037537
The venerable cities of the past, such as Venice or Amsterdam, convey a feeling of wholeness, an organic unity that surfaces in every detail, large and small, in restaurants, shops, public gardens, even in balconies and ornaments. But this sense of wholeness is lacking in modern urban design, with architects absorbed in problems of individual structures, and city planners preoccupied with local ordinances, it is almost impossible to achieve. In this groundbreaking volume, architect and planner Christopher Alexander presents a new theory of urban design which attempts to recapture the process by which cities develop organically. To discover the kinds of laws needed to create a growing whole in a city, Alexander proposes here a preliminary set of seven rules which embody the process at a practical level and which are consistent with the day-to-day demands of urban development. He then puts these rules to the test, setting out with a number of his graduate students to simulate the urban redesign of a high-density part of San Francisco, initiating a project that encompassed some ninety different design problems, including warehouses, hotels, fishing piers, a music hall, and a public square. This extensive experiment is documented project by project, with detailed discussion of how each project satisfied the seven rules, accompanied by floorplans, elevations, street grids, axonometric diagrams and photographs of the scaled-down model which clearly illustrate the discussion. A New Theory of Urban Design provides an entirely new theoretical framework for the discussion of urban problems, one that goes far to remedy the defects which cities have today.
Author : Joe Greenbury
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Page : 52 pages
File Size : 19,93 MB
Release : 1983
Category : Architecture
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Author : Harvard University. Graduate School of Design. Library
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Page : 656 pages
File Size : 14,84 MB
Release : 1979
Category : Architecture
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Page : 518 pages
File Size : 35,29 MB
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Category : Architecture
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